From the back of the book:
One of the Soviet Union's finest short story writers makes her US debut in this enthralling collection of fiction. Women's lives are the central preoccupation of Natlya Baranskaya: a scientist frantically juggles her professional life with her duties as a wife and mother; a woman writer who regrets never marrying is finally glad of it; a delinquent girl is brought before the people's court for her "anti-social" behavior. With candor and satirical wit, Baranskaya captures perfectly the everyday realities of family and society in the Soviet Union of the 1990s.
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I picked this book up at the used book store while searching for other foreign authors. Although I already had another Russian author on my shelf, meaning I didn't need this to count toward any goal, I was somehow drawn to this book, and it turns out that I enjoyed it very much. My favorite story was the title novella, A Week Like Any Other, which focusses on a working woman who's torn between her responsibilites and feels that she cannot do any of them well. She's called to some reflection by a survey of working mothers, and fears that it's pointing out her inadequacies. It felt so very real to me, and parts of it were familiar from when my child was small, or even now when he's a teenager.

Since I've read this one before the other Russian story, I'm going to count this as my Russian author in the Olympic Challenge.

I'm putting this aside to be loaned to P the next time I see her. We were talking about books today and she mentioned that she likes books that give a flavor of other countries so I thought she might enjoy this.